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This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation's history. During the eighteenth century the wealth of the great landed estates funded the golden age of country house building by aristocracy and gentry.

This book aims to develop a situative educational model to guide the design and implementation of powerful student-centered learning environments in higher education classrooms.

Hanneke Stuit delves into Ubuntu's relevance both in South Africa and in Western contexts, analyzing the political and ethical ramifications of the term's uses in different media including literature, cartoons, journalistic fiction, commercials, commodities, photography, and political manifestos in contemporary South African culture.

This book illuminates the hidden history of South Korean birth mothers involved in the 60-year-long practice of transnational adoption.

Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited. This book looks at three examples of temporarily unrestricted migration in Miami, Marseille, and Dublin and finds that the effects were much less catastrophic than opponents of immigration claim.

The proliferation of advanced militarily relevant technologies in the Asia-Pacific over the past few decades has been a significant, and perhaps even alarming, development. This volume addresses how such technologies may affect military capabilities and military advantage in the region.

The study of regionalism is essential as it has become a vital trend with profound regional and global impacts. As closer economic ties between countries in the area have expanded significantly in the last decade, economic regionalization in East Asia has proceeded in a much more dynamic fashion than regionalist projects.

Social Capital in Development Planning updates and advances the debate on social capital through the analysis of the application of the concept of social capital to programs for sustainable and smart socioeconomic development;

The book shows how various gender inequality issues are approached and analysed in the location of China by Chinese gender/social science scholars and how studies of gender inequality constitutes an astute critique of the neo-liberal capitalist development in China.

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe's struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer.

Edward Said and the Question of Subjectivity explores the notion of subjectivity implicated in and articulated by Said in his writings.

Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages. This book takes a new approach by critically examining how various development strategies provoke or help prevent intrastate violence, based on cases from all developing regions.

This volume explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts engage with relationships between humans and other animals.

This book presents a lively and accessible way to use the ancient figure of Socrates to teach modern psychology that avoids the didactic lecture and sterile textbook. This book presents a plan for using the ancient figure of Socrates and his Method to realize humane learning outcomes in the context of psychology.

Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society.

Despite growing concern about intergenerational tension and even possible conflict, the book finds evidence of a significant degree of intergenerational solidarity both within families at the micro level and between generations more generally within society at the macro level in Britain.

In his latest book, Arthur Asa Berger offers a concise series of analyses on the transformative impact of digital devices on American society.

Contemporary popular culture has created a slew of stereotypical roles for girls and women to (willingly or not) play throughout their lives: The Princess, the Nymphette, the Diva, the Single Girl, the Bridezilla, the Tiger Mother, the M.I.L.F, the Cougar, and more.

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering.

This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldua's spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction.

In the first volume, the author distinguishes between economic growth and sustainable economic development, and discusses China's current and past economic policies towards growth.

This book takes a distinctive and innovative approach to a relatively under-explored question, namely: Why do we have human rights? Egalitarian Rights Recognition offers an account of how human rights are created and how they may be seen to be legitimate: rights are created through social recognition.

This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatismfrom a literary perspective, tracing the characters and settings that populatethe narratives of pragmatist thought in Henry James's work.